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Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐
Professional Appointment and Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Data Driven Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow. Advisor: Dr. Corlett W. Wood
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2022-
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Advisor: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez
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2017-2022
M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University
Advisor: Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen
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2015-2017
B.S., Life Science, National Taiwan University
Presidential and Dean’s Award (ranking top 5% in the class) GPA: 4.1/4.3
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2011-2015
Publications
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Little population divergence of a facultative plant symbiont
In prep
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2024
Chang-Yu Chang#, Terrence Topping-Brown, Jazmine Rud, Gerardo Bencosme, McCall Calvert, Corlett Wood#
Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities
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2023
Chang-Yu Chang#, Djordje Bajic#, Sylvie Estrela, Jean Vila, Alvaro Sanchez#
Top-down and bottom-up cohesiveness in microbial community coalescence
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2022
Juan Diaz-Colunga*, Nanxi Lu*, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga*, Chang-Yu Chang, Helen Cai, Joshua Goldford, Mikhail Tikhonov, Alvaro Sanchez#
Functional attractors in microbial community assembly
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2022
Sylvie Estrela#, Jean C C Vila, Nanxi Lu, Djordje Bajic, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Chang-Yu Chang, Joshua E. Goldford, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga, Alvaro Sanchez#
Engineering complex communities by directed evolution
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2021
Chang-Yu Chang*, Jean C C Vila*, Madeline Bender, Richard Li, Madeleine C Mankowski, Molly Bassette, Julia Borden, Stefan Golfier, Paul Gerald L Sanchez, Rachel Waymack, Xinwen Zhu, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Alvaro Sanchez#
Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities
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2021
Alvaro Sanchez#, Jean C C Vila, Chang-Yu Chang, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Artificially selecting bacterial communities using propagule strategies
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2020
Chang-Yu Chang*, Melisa L Osborne*, Djordje Bajic, Alvaro Sanchez#
Ecological effects of cellular computing in microbial populations
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2018
Maia Baskerville*, Arielle Biro*, Mike Blazanin*, Chang-Yu Chang*, Amelia Hallworth*, Nicole Sonnert*, Jean C C Vila*, Alvaro Sanchez#
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
Data Driven Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow ($27,500)
University of Pennsylvania
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2022-2024
Government Fellowship for Oversea Study ($126,000)
Taiwan Ministry of Education
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2017-2020
Invited Seminars
Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University
Seminar
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2023
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
Seminar
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2023
Princeton University
Seminar
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2021
University of Pennsylvannia
Seminar
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2021
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Workshop on Limits to Diversity Assembly
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2021
Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University
Graduate student SMAL talks
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2020
Contributed Presentations
Evolution 2023. Contributed talk
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2023
ASN Asilomar 2023. Contributed talk
Honorable mention postdoc presentation
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2023
Connections Across Borders - Microbial Ecology Conference. Contributed talk
Travel grant $250; Yale GSA CTF grant $750
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2022
Evolution 2022. Contributed talk
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2022
The Graduate Research in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Annual Symposium (GREBE). Contributed talk
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2019
Microbial Sciences Institute Retreat, Yale University. Contributed poster
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2019
Yale EEB graduate student symposium. Contributed poster
Best contributed poster
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2019
17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME). Contributed poster
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2018
18th Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology, Taiwan. Contributed talk
Winner Prize for oral presentation
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2017
15th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Contributed talk
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2016
Graduate student symposium, National Taiwan University. Contributed poster
Best contributed poster
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2016
Teaching and Mentoring
University of Pennsylvannia
Guest lecturer, Evolution
Undergrad mentor (Nehemias Abundo Quiroz)
Undergrad thesis mentor (Jazmine Rud)
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2022-
Yale University
TA, E&EB729: Microbial Ecology and Evolution
TA, BIOL104: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
TA, EEB250/550: Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods
TA, EEB251L/551L: Laboratory for Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods
TA, EEB223L/523L: Laboratory for Evolution & Functional Traits
Undergrad thesis mentor (Helen Cai)
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2019-2020
Marine Biological Laboratory
TA, PBoC2019: Physical Biology of the Cell summer course
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2019
National Taiwan University
TA, LS3022: Biostatistics
TA, LS1019: General Botany Lab
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2015-2016
Service
Manuscript reviewer for journals:
Ecology Letters, Ecology, ISciences, Nature Communications, Plant and Soil, Ecography
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Co-chair of postdoc events, UPenn Biology Department
Coordinated the postdoc social events and meetings
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2023-2024
Bilingual mentor, Evolution 2022
Guided non-native English-speaking students in preparing their presentations
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2022
President, Yale Taiwansese Student Association
Organized recreational and holiday events for Taiwanese students
Facilitated connections among Taiwanese students across universities
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2018-2020
Organizer, Yale EEB Hutchinson speaker
Dr. Dolph Schluter (UBC) invited as the 2019 Hutchinson Speaker
Organized and modulated invited speaker talks, sessions, and meetings
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2019
References
Dr. Corlett W. Wood
Postdoc advisor
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Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Alvaro Sanchez
Ph.D. advisor
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Principal investigator, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain
Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gomez
Dissertation committee
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Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine